Ashwini Ramaswamy’s Invisible Cities

Thursday, February 8, 2024
7:30 p.m.
General Admission Seating, Arts Center Matrix

“a luscious multimedia adaptation [that] came alive when the different groupings were woven together, creating a quilt of varied textures. The styles didn’t feel disparate, but rather melded and blurred together in delicious cohesion.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune

Featuring ten dancers, this reimagining of Italo Calvino’s metaphysical novel interweaves cultural perspectives through a dynamic group of lead artists who work in different movement styles—Ashwini Ramaswamy with Ranee Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy (Bharatanatyam), Berit Ahlgren (Gaga), Alanna Morris (Modern/Afro Diasporic), Joseph Tran (Breaking)—and visual artist Kevork Mourad.

Invisible Cities is a generative pilgrimage that expresses Ramaswamy’s lifelong desire to coalesce her specific artistic and cultural aesthetic as a Bharatanatyam artist with the dynamic universe of other embodied traditions and communities.

The performance extends beyond the kinetic realm with Mourad’s interactive, immersively projected illustrations, which harmonize art, music, and movement. Both haunting and hopeful, ethereal and full of depth, Mourad’s visual architectures provide a dynamic and unpredictable dimension to the artists’ examination of the way the built environment and human life interact.

With Invisible Cities, Ramaswamy deepens a choreographic method she began in 2019 with Let the Crows Come, which was named a “Best of the Year” in The Washington Post and a critic’s pick in The New York Times.

JMKAC’s CAFE will be open before the show from 5:00–7:30 p.m. Select specials will be served in addition to regular menu items. Reservations are strongly encouraged by calling (920) 694-4555.

Duration: approximately 75 minutes, no intermission

Accessibility: Wheelchair assistance

If at any time, you are unable to use your tickets, please call the Arts Center at (920) 458-6144 to release your seating. Thank you!